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When New Jersey's St. William Academy All Girls' Catholic School holds auditions for Romeo and Juliet, 17-year-old Ellie and her best friend Britt just assume they'll be cast in the title ro…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:53PMMonday, October 28, 2024
As Anton Chekhov wrote, if the title song of a musical is interrupted with a legal disclaimer regarding the use of copyrighted material, the first act had better end with a cease and desist …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:52AMThursday, October 10, 2024
"Content warning for like, everything. Really sorry. This play's really gross," advises playwright Riley Elton McCarthy in the press script provided to reviewers of their psychological Grand…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:36PMFriday, May 31, 2019
'This is an unscripted show. I have no idea what I'm going to do,' the internationally acclaimed composer and pianist Yanni tells his audience at the outset of his debut Broadway performance.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:54AMThursday, May 30, 2019
'I guess I want you to play the most beautiful music ever written and dedicate it to us,' a hopeful romantic requests of the radio station he's phoned from his date's apartment.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48PMFriday, May 24, 2019
Though the 1976 musical SO LONG, 174th STREET didn't even last a fortnight on Broadway, it wouldn't be surprising to see the York Theater Company's completely delightful revised version, ENT…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:42AMTuesday, May 21, 2019
There's a scene in poet-turned-playwright Aziza Barnes' fast and furiously funny debut stage piece, BLKS, where the main characters, a trio of black Brooklyn women in their 20s 'out on a mis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:12AMSaturday, May 18, 2019
Playwright Chisa Hutchinson, describes Constance Daley, the character who voices her solo play, Proof of Love, as 'close as you can get to a WASP while being black.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42PMWednesday, May 15, 2019
Latecomers to director Terry Kinney's finely-acted Signature Theatre revival of Sam Shepard's 1977 dysfunctional family drama, Curse of the Starving Class, will miss the showstopping bit of …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:33AMMonday, May 13, 2019
Though the world-famous 35-year-old Montreal-based entertainment troupe Cirque du Soleil has never been known for making political statements with their extravaganzas of culture and athletic…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:18AMFriday, May 10, 2019
That crazy cacophony of choreographic chaos that careens across the City Center stage shortly after the commencement of Act II is the main reason for Encores to bring back the smash hit 1947…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33AMTuesday, May 7, 2019
Don't let the abundance of cuteness fool you. Isabella Rossellini's LINK LINK CIRCUS is one of the brainiest shows in town.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMThough Shakespeare's The Tempest commences with a spectacular act of revenge, director Laurie Woolery stresses in her program notes for Mobile Unit's thoroughly enrapturing new production he…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42AMSunday, May 5, 2019
If you're like this male theatre critic, you'll spend the first twenty minutes or so of Halley Feiffer's The Pain of My Belligerence wondering why the woman at the center of the story is put…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12PMFriday, April 26, 2019
'Holy crap A ballad already', sneers the leading man as he interrupts the opening song of his starring vehicle a funeral dirge sung by his co-star, backed by a chorus of mourners.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:21AMThursday, April 25, 2019
Long before the term clickbait entered into pop culture infamy, Chief Editor Larry Lamb of the Fleet Street tabloid The Sun was offering his staff a bonus every time the eye-catching words '…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:49AMWednesday, April 24, 2019
Following in the footsteps of NETWORK and TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Robert Horn book and David Yazbek's score musical comedy Tootsie continues this Broadway season's welcome trend of adapting c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:52AMTuesday, April 23, 2019
While many scoff at Broadway's habit of bringing back so many American classics from decades ago, a well-timed revival of an early work by one of our great masters might reveal a bit about h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMMonday, April 22, 2019
'Would you rule justly' the ancient Greek philosopher who serves as title character of Tim Blake Nelson's drama Socrates asks a fellow citizen who claims he would do a better job than the cu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:13AMSunday, April 21, 2019
Don't let the title scare you. All you need to know about Shakespeare's infamously bloody revenge tragedy before laughing yourself silly at Taylor Mac's Gary A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, is…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:01PMFriday, April 19, 2019
'If the universe is infinite,' Laurie Metcalf, playing Laurie Metcalf, explains to the audience at the outset of Lucas Hnath's sharp and funny bit of political fan fiction, Hillary and Clint…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:12AMThursday, April 18, 2019
With a stage career spanning half a century that includes dozens of notable performances in New York alone, Andre De Shields knows a thing or two about seducing an audience. And that's exact…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:19AMWednesday, April 17, 2019
For over a dozen years, the brilliant directorchoreographer Austin McCormick and the intriguing troupe of artists he's gathered to create and expand Company XIV have been luring audiences to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMThe phrase 'toxic masculinity' wasn't exactly in the vernacular in 1987, when Circle Rep's buzz-producing run of Lanford Wilson's Burn This moved uptown to Broadway. So perhaps coked-up, hom…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42AMTuesday, April 16, 2019
When director Sam Mendes' beautifully realized production of Jez Butterworth's Olivier-winning drama The Ferryman opened on Broadway last October, leading man Paddy Considine and several oth…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMThursday, April 11, 2019
An empathy coach is hired to hold workshops at a debt collection agency. Sounds like comedy gold to this reviewer, who has been on the receiving end of phone calls from high-pressure, goal-o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AMSunday, April 7, 2019
As with setting a Shakespeare comedy in outer space or a Wagner opera in a subway station, director Daniel Fish's jaunty riff on Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's 1943 classic Oklah…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:00PMFriday, April 5, 2019
In recalling the great comedies penned by William Shakespeare, classics like TWELFTH NIGHT, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and the one about all the errors have been making audiences bust out in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:15AMThursday, April 4, 2019
In June of 1937, the United States government padlocked New York's Maxine Elliot Theatre and sent security guards to prevent the performance of a new musical, but the unknown leading lady Ol…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:25AMMonday, April 1, 2019
Like a sad, lonely island, depleted of its bounty, a single floor of the offices of Lehman Brothers is revealed, isolated, lofted above the endless business of a bustling Manhattan. It is em…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:17AMThis morning President Donald Trump signed an executive order spelling out steps to combat the importation of Squips into the United States.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:01AM 
